Chris Read: Building your business strategy for AI

Finding the AI project ‘sweet spot'

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You may ask why does my advice business need a strategy for AI? Chris Read has the answer...

Ever since Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic forum, first coined the phrase The Fourth Industrial Revolution in a book of the same name in 2016, many of us have been trying to define what it means to be living and working in the fourth industrial revolution. Some argue that it marks the period when the technological and physical or biological start to fuse. Others prefer to define it in terms of the confluence of numerous, yet distinct, tech ‘mega trends' which currently includes artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, 3D printing, drones, IoT, virtual reality, but could eq...

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